25 quotes about success and ambition: 1. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda 2. Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. - Jackson Brown 3.Great minds have purposes, others have wishes - Washington Irving 4.Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain 5.Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold 6.In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt 7.Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed. - Robert Schuller 8.Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. - Franklin Roosevelt 9.Those who do most, dream most 10. Don't just think about the things you have done, think about the things you haven't done but you want to do! 11.Ambition beats genius 99% of the time - Jay Leno. 12. It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. - Anthony Trollope.